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Your weekly summary from the Council LATEST ANALYSIS
Members of the U.S. Senate are currently negotiating a deal to continue funding the federal government next year, as well as providing military aid to Ukraine and Israel. But the cost could be the federal government’s ability to provide humanitarian protection to migrants in need. Read More » U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreed to publish past versions of internal documents in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) library. Agencies’ FOIA libraries—or Reading Rooms—are designated webpages where the public can view agency documents without the need to file a request under FOIA. While this may seem inconsequential, hopefully it is part of a larger trend of agencies publishing records in their respective FOIA libraries more often. Read More »
Under this “zero tolerance” policy, the administration criminally prosecuted migrants for entering the United States, resulting in countless separations of families. This fact sheet from the American Immigration Council provides information about entry-related offenses, who is subjected to them, and the devastating cost. Read more: Prosecuting People for Coming to the United States ACROSS THE NATION
This week, the American Immigration Council and the University of Minnesota’s Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic released a practice advisory that aims to demystify this analysis. The practice advisory describes some of the common “tools of statutory construction” to help immigration attorneys advocate for narrow definitions of generic criminal removal grounds before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. courts of appeals. Read more: Common Tools of Statutory Construction for Criminal Removal Grounds
The Council and AILA filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request with ICE and CBP to seek records to shed light on FERM. Impacted communities deserve to know how the government puts families in FERM and what their rights are during the process. Families in FERM need this information to protect their rights and avoid fast-track deportations. Read more: Council and AILA File FOIA Requests Seeking Information on FERM Program
In 2019, more than 16,000 immigrants lived in Santa Fe County, representing 11.1% of the total population. The same year, immigrants in the county held $365.9 million in spending power, paid $78.8 million in federal taxes, and paid $43.8 million in state and local taxes. Despite making up 11.1% of the county’s overall population, immigrants represented 15.2% percent of its working age population and 15% percent of its employed labor force. Read more: New Americans in Santa Fe County QUOTE OF THE WEEK “As Congress negotiates an emergency supplemental funding bill, some Members of Congress are misusing these negotiations in order to extract cruel, ineffective, and radical changes to our immigration and asylum system. These changes would have lasting effects that would create more chaos and disorder at the southern border and across neighboring countries. Demanding impossible standards for securing asylum or curbing parole authority as a condition for moving funding... is unacceptable.” FURTHER READING
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